Lynette Wallworth
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Schools Program Learning Resources: Coral: Rekindling Venus Coral – Rekindling Venus - Capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Critical & Creative Thinking, Personal & Social Capability, Ethical Understanding Cross Curriculum priorities: Sustainability 1 Contents Coral: Rekindling Venus at Adelaide Festival............................................................... 3 About Lynette Wallworth .............................................................................................. 5 Coral: Rekindling Venus Synopsis ................................................................................ 6 Artist Statement: Lynette Wallworth ............................................................................. 6 About Lynette Wallworth .............................................................................................. 6 Q & A with Lynette Wallworth ..................................................................................... 8 About the collaborators ................................................................................................ 14 David Hannan .......................................................................................................... 14 Max Richter ............................................................................................................. 14 Antony and the Johnsons ......................................................................................... 15 Gurrumul .................................................................................................................. 16 Fennesz & Sakamoto ............................................................................................... 16 Tanya Tagaq Gillis ................................................................................................... 16 The Transit and Global Scientific Co-operation .......................................................... 17 Fulldome Digital Planetariums .................................................................................... 18 About John Maynard: Producer ................................................................................... 18 About Bridget Ikin: Co-Producer................................................................................. 18 About David Metcalfe” Chief Executive, Forma ........................................................ 18 About Felix Media ....................................................................................................... 19 About Forma Arts and Media ...................................................................................... 19 Coral: Rekindling Venus Credits ................................................................................. 20 Themes in Coral: Rekindling Venus ............................................................................ 25 Task ideas..................................................................................................................... 25 Discussion/Essay Questions......................................................................................... 26 Research Topics ........................................................................................................... 26 Essay Writing Tips ....................................................................................................... 27 Review Writing Tips .................................................................................................... 31 Use some new words ................................................................................................... 33 2 Coral: Rekindling Venus at Adelaide Festival Lynette Wallworth This Adelaide Festival, audiences are invited to dive into an immersive film experience in fulldome cinema by renowned visual artist and film-maker Lynette Wallworth. Under the giant projection dome of the Adelaide Planetarium, viewers will be surrounded by staggeringly beautiful coral reef imagery and high-resolution microscopic footage of a teeming underwater universe. Wallworth, who this year won the UNESCO Sydney City of Film Award, immerses her audiences in the magic of a mysterious realm of fluorescent coral reefs, bioluminescent sea creatures and rare marine life living in the oceans most threatened by climate change. A beautiful alien world portrayed in luminous colour without narration or polemics, the effect of Coral: Rekindling Venus on the eyes and ears will ignite in viewers a burning protest at the imminent disappearance of this teeming universe. With a soundtrack by celebrated artists Gurrumul Yunupingu, Antony and the Johnsons (Anohni) and Tanya Tagaq Gillis, with additional music by Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto, the doc-art installation is as close as you can get to uncovering the mysteries of the ocean and understanding its complexities. Adelaide Festival Artistic Directors Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield are proud to be presenting this important work at their inaugural Festival in 2017. “Adelaide is very lucky to have the Mawson Lakes Planetarium, the perfect environment to showcase this internationally celebrated work from Lynette Wallworth. It poses important questions about the impact global warming is having on our ocean life, and is also an utterly unique work about our natural world,” Ms Healy said. “Lynette is rightly regarded as one of the great visual artists to come out of Australia and this particular work uses footage that is like nothing you have ever seen.” “Lynette Walworth is a really significant, award winning film maker,” Mr Armfield said. “She has a way of getting a story and providing a focus that is clear and playful, and she is so receptive to beauty in the world and in people.” Originally commissioned by the London Olympics, Coral: Rekindling Venus was shown simultaneously in 14 countries across the world to coincide with the Transit of Venus: a rare cosmic event that for hundreds of years has united even warring nations. 3 Lynette Wallworth feels Coral: Rekindling Venus is connectional, rather than educational, but she still wants to impart a message to her viewers. “I don’t want to inform you of anything. I just want to offer you an experience that might build a connection to a community as complex as our own that happens to be underwater; and one at great risk of warming sea temperatures,” Ms Wallworth said. A beautiful film that immerses the audience in the wonders of the water, Coral: Rekindling Venus seeks to allow people to build their own relationship to the corals, rather than document an underwater lifecycle. The shots are designed to carry viewers into the sea and leave them adrift in a world that might not exist in 100 years. A production that is part meditation, part revelation and part hallucination, Coral: Rekindling Venus is a unique insight into a world deep below the surface of the ocean and has been lauded by critics worldwide: “Immersive cinema at its most spectacular” – LA Times “The experience Wallworth has made accessible through Coral is vexing and wondrous.” – ABC Arts “Combined with a haunting soundtrack, it feels like you are living in a David Attenborough dream illustrated by Salvador Dali.” – Dox Magazine “Audible gasps filled the room, audience members clasped their chests and a few left the planetarium in tears” – Huffington Post 4 About Lynette Wallworth Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist/filmmaker who has consistently worked with emerging media technologies. Wallworth’s work has shown at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, the Smithsonian, Royal Observatory Greenwich for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad; Auckland Triennial; Adelaide Biennial; Brighton Festival and the Vienna Festival among many others as well as film festivals including-Sundance Film Festival, London Film Festival, Tibeca Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Adelaide Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival and the Margaret Mead Film Festival. She has been awarded an International Fellowship from Arts Council England, a New Media Arts Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts, the inaugural Australian Film, Television and Radio School Creative Fellowship and the Joan and Kim Williams Documentary Fellowship. She has had artist residencies in many parts of the world including Southern Italy, Iran, Northern England and New Mexico. CORAL, Wallworth’s full dome film entirely focused on coral reefs premiered at the World Science Festival 2012 and the following week screened in 28 cities around the world aligned to the Transit of Venus. CORAL was awarded best fulldome art film at the 2012 Domie awards. Her first feature documentary TENDER, traces the beginnings of a community-led funeral company in Port Kembla. This work was awarded the AAACA award for best television documentary 2015 and the Grand Jury Prize, Pacific International Documentary Festival 2015. It was also nominated for the Grieson Award 2014 and Wallworth was nominated for the Margaret Mead Filmmaker award 2014. In 2012 Wallworth spent time with the remote WA Martu community to develop an immersive video work on traditional Martu hunting methods. In 2013 Wallworth took singer Anohni with her on a second visit resulting in a new immersive work for the 2014 Adelaide Biennial. In 2015 Wallworth was awarded Sundance Institutes first Virtual Reality Residency and created the acclaimed VR work COLLISIONS which recounts the story of Martu elder Nyarri Morgan’s experience of